3quarksdaily:

The last is a line from what bids fair to be one of the man­age­ment books of the year. Hard Facts, Dan­ger­ous Half-​​Truths and Total Non­sense (Har­vard Busi­ness School Press), by Stan­ford pro­fes­sors Jef­frey Pfef­fer and Robert Sut­ton, is a com­pelling tour of man­age­ment con­ven­tional wis­dom and why it so often turns out to be unwise, untrue and a stranger to fact — bol­locks, in fact. Every poten­tial man­ager should be made to read it before they are allowed to be in charge of any­thing, even a whelk stall.